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Maryvale Energy from Waste Facility

Veolia and Masdar Tribe are partnering with Opal Australian Paper to develop an energy from waste (EfW) facility.  The $600 million project will generate energy from the controlled combustion of non-hazardous residual waste materials – waste that would otherwise go to landfill. 

Following combustion, the facility will capture and convert the released heat into steam and electricity, with sophisticated filtering technology ensuring compliance with stringent stack emissions standards. 

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Key facts

  • Location: Facility sits adjacent to the Maryvale Mill, Victoria’s largest generator of baseload renewable energy, and the state’s largest industrial user of natural gas and a significant electricity consumer 
     
  • Job Creation: For the three years of Stage One construction, 500 Victorian jobs each year and 455 jobs ongoing (including flow-ons) as well as supporting jobs at the Mill 
     
  • Environmental Impact: Stage One of the facility's construction would reduce Victoria’s net CO2 emissions by an estimated 270,000 tonnes annually, equal to taking 50,000 cars off the road. Would divert 325K of waste from landfill each year, turning it into energy or recycling it 
     
  • Website: Veolia Maryvale Energy from Waste Facility website

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